Helsinki -10 degrees Celsius, mostly cloudy.
Sunrise 8:27 am, sunset 4:43 pm.
I got a splendid idea to enrol my parents (or to be strict about it, their apartment) to decorating TV-show! Show is called Inno (comes from the word innovation) and the actual format goes as followed: Some kind of space has a decorating problem, the decorator comes to see how the space looks like and at the same time interviews the home owner of his/hers preference in style. When the decorator has all the information he needs he gets back to his designing table. Now he’s designing the space and all the alteration work is done without the customer. In the end of the show they are surprising the customer and seeing how he/she likes the new decoration. And that’s it! Pretty simple, don’t you think?
My conversations about the topic with my parents went little bit like this:
Eija: “Hi mom! Now you are going to enrol yourself to the Inno!”
Mom: “We don’t want to be in TV!”
Eija: “Yes, but it would be a great idea. Which room do you want to enrol?”
Mom: “I don’t know.”
Eija: “Okay, it’s the small room then.”
Mom: “But I and dad don’t want to be in TV! If you go instead of us, it’s okay.”
Eija: “Okay, I’ll call dad and tell him that you thought it was a good idea!”
Eija: “Hi dad! You are going to enrol to the Inno!”
Dad: “No, we don’t want to be in TV.”
Eija: “Which one of the rooms is the problematic one?”
Dad: “None of them, they are all alright.”
Eija: “No, I don’t think so. What about the small room?”
Dad: “There’s no problem with that one, because it’s so small that nothing fits in to it.”
Eija: “Okay, so that’s the problem room then! I’m going to enrol you for you!”
Dad: “Do as you wish, but your mom and I don’t want to be in TV.”
That went well! 
I actually already wrote the base of the application, but I’m going to finish it on next weekend when I visit their new apartment and get some photos of it. And of course it’s not sure that they get into the show even if I enrol them. If they get in, we’ll work with that situation.
I’m an evil child! I’m sure they think like that…
